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In Reply to: And now for something completely different........ posted by kenster on February 25, 2007 at 21:48:42:
Don't know...many songs I heard that had an impact on me as a child or youth were heard on lousy radios and cheap console "stereos". So that impact had little to do with any particular sonic quality, and most likely nothing to do with time coherence other than I was coherent enough to appreciate the song at the time- to appreciate just hearing a well performed, well written tune. I've been listening to music on a pretty intense level since I was very young too. My father was a semi-pro jazz drummer and I grew up listening to lots of music, live and recorded.As I've aged and heard better systems, I can certainly appreciate more the "sonic" effort that went into recording and creating certain songs from me youth, but they don't trigger effects like a certain taste or aroma do, as regards "bringing back memories". I don't listen to music for any sentimental reasons though and find that to be one of the worse reasons for me to listen to music, so perhaps I've built up some sort of tolerence. When I listen to a song I'm in the moment, not in some past moment when I may have first heard it, even if I've heard that song a thousand times before, and there are MANY songs I've heard that often.
Then there is Phoebe Snow's version of "San Francisco Bay Blues" which always reminds me of the Crab Louis, sourdough bread and glass of cold beer I'd have at a restaurant I used to work at while listening to that LP 30+ years ago. Never fails, whenever I hear that song, I can "taste" that meal. Just that one song, nothing else from that LP.
We had a pretty good Marantz tube system at that joint...
You may be on to something that "affects" long time audiophiles though, certain sonic cues that "take you back to that place". I'm just not one of them.
"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
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